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Mobile DevOps

By : Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi
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Mobile DevOps

By: Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi

Overview of this book

Today's world is all about perfection, and there are hundreds of applications that are released each day out of which only a few succeed. Making sure that the app looks, performs, and behaves as expected is one of the biggest challenge developers face today. The main goal of this book is to teach developers to implement DevOps to build, test, and deliver. This book will teach you to implement Mobile DevOps at every stage of your application's lifecycle with Visual Studio and Xamarin Mobile Lifecycle solutions. Later, it will also show you how to leverage Mobile Center's continuous integration and automated testing to develop a high-quality applications. Next, you’ll see how to mobilize your on-premises data to the cloud and increase your productivity with code reuse. Finally, you’ll discover how to find and fix bugs beforehand, improving the efficiency of your application while it is being developed. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with Mobile DevOps techniques, delivering high quality and high performance mobile apps.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating a build script

The build script should contain the following steps:

  • Compile the application: Configuring the application project file to use the proper Keystore and compiling the application using Visual Studio SDK tools
  • Submit the application to Xamarin Test Cloud: Once the server's firewall is configured to allow communication with Test Cloud servers, as mentioned in previous steps, this step in the build script will run the command to upload the signed application package to the Test Cloud servers

Compiling the application

Now that we have our Android Keystore ready and prepped for use, we can look at the Visual Studio project. In order to automate this in the build system, we need to configure the project...